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First trade edition / First printing. Signed and Inscribed on the half-title page by the author: For Irving & Harriet / All the best / Your friend / Cormac. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. 293 pages. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Inscribed to Irving and Harriet Brown, former booksellers, owners of HI Books and members of McCarthy's inner circle in El Paso. Inscribed copies of McCarthy's work are rarely on the market.

Cities of the Plain is the third novel in American author Cormac McCarthy’s 'Border Trilogy'. The novel was published in 1998, and it continues following the story of John Grady Cole, a young Texas cowboy, and Billy Parham, an older American cowboy, as their paths intertwine on a ranch near the U.S.-Mexico border.